John L.Marsh,English Department,and Karl Nordberg,Educ­
ational Foundations Department,are the co-recipients of a grant

from The Public Committee for the Humanities in Pennsylvania.
Their project,’’The Rural Experience in northwestern Pennsyl­

vania; ye st er day, today, and tomorrow,’’involves the detailed study
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of a late Victorian fatm in the immediate area.Once cpmpleted,

their findings will be presented at a public ~^oi"um featuring,
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look of the farms of today and of tomorrow.Co­

sponsors of the project^are the Borough of Edinboro,the Edinboro

Historical Society,and Edinboro State College.

In a collaboration that produced Edinboro:a dirt street town.
Profs.Marsh and Nordberg were impressed by how little sense of

th^ area’s agricultural past existed among newer residents in
the community.Yet that rural heritage seemed not only worth
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exploring but preserving.To this end Marsh and Nordberg have

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farmers and to visit their farms.WithAdevelopers and steel mill
proponents urging their special interests, it seemed appropriate

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